"We went from having what I thought was a pretty secure city manager position to having none in less than 50 hours," Kinsky said at a city council meeting Tuesday night.

Kinsky said he has been corresponding with Awesome via email since his resignation because Awesome's only cellphone had been supplied by the city. He said at the meeting that he had asked Awesome to repay the city for his moving costs.

"I would like to see it come back," he said afterward, "but I'm not expecting it."

In other Washington County news:

Forest Grove: When sports enthusiast Sue Fleskes returned to her car from a Portland Trailblazers game at the Rose Garden last Thursday, she discovered her car had been broken into, the lock picked and the inside looted. Gone were her personal possessions -- rain gear and a camera -- as well as $3,200 in uniforms and jackets for the Forest Grove Running Club, striking a huge blow to one of the school district's only free extracurricular programs. "I felt terrible," Fleskes recalled. "Sick to my stomach."